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Thursday, 8 April 2010

Lourdes: realistic about religion

"To respect religion properly we need to appreciate how different people relate to different beliefs in different ways, and that constant, sober piety is the exception, rather than the rule. It was a local priest who once told my father, 'the problem with most people is that they take religion too seriously'."